Title: Multiple Posts Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Multiple Posts * [daverage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daverage/) * (@daverage) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/) * Hi * I have been using this plugin for a while, but over the last few weeks I have noticed a lot of duplicate posting (up to 7 for one article). * I removed and replaced, then removed and installed the beta – but am still getting the same results. * In the meta posts table, they seem to only be in there once, so it is not a case of the same article having multiple URLS. * Any thoughts on why this may be happening? * Thanks * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/) Viewing 7 replies - 16 through 22 (of 22 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/?output_format=md) 2 * [projectpaki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/projectpaki/) * (@projectpaki) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/page/2/#post-5127529) * I have read ALL of the documentation. I would not have come here if I had not. Fine, I will try another plugin. * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/page/2/#post-5127530) * the problem with checking titles right now is the since php was upgraded to php 5 (and many servers are now using that version), the means of escaping the title that was being used is discontinued. When I had that in the code, I got a lot of people saying that were having problems that nothing was coming in via the feed to post (because the code wasn’t working so it gave a false reading). The easiest way to get rid of the problem was to stop checking titles. * What I’m going to look into next is checking dates using the unix time code. But that won’t be available for another week or so. * Thread Starter [daverage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daverage/) * (@daverage) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/page/2/#post-5127531) * Ah I see. * Well will have a look at my other plugins and see if anything is hooking in before multi import can update the postmeta table. * Just can’t see why that would happen if the post is so obviously being added to the post table – can’t see how any plugin is stopping it! * 🙁 * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/page/2/#post-5127532) * yes, that is the most likely problem….when the feed to post is putting in a new post, there are often other plugins that look for a Save Post hook and then mess up my plugin. I’ve seen this happen on some other sites, for example, where the save post is blocking my plugin. * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/page/2/#post-5127535) * also, if you want to try, use this file that has the title and url checked * [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3132388/pluginfiles/import_posts.php](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3132388/pluginfiles/import_posts.php) * Thread Starter [daverage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daverage/) * (@daverage) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/page/2/#post-5127542) * Thanks will give it a go! * Don’t want to try another plugin as yours is by far the best free one! Wp-pipes is almost as good, but insanely resource hungry lol. * Is it possible to change the order with which the database is updates – so your custom fields are added before the post? Or does that not work? * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/page/2/#post-5127549) * everything that happens when putting in a post happens like this * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post) * the post is first created, which includes the custom post name (assuming this is the beta version) and then the ID of the post is used to then put the meta values in the database. Viewing 7 replies - 16 through 22 (of 22 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/?output_format=md) 2 The topic ‘Multiple Posts’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/wp-rss-multi-importer_a9b8a0.svg) * [WP RSS Multi Importer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-rss-multi-importer/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-rss-multi-importer/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-rss-multi-importer/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-rss-multi-importer/reviews/) ## Tags * [duplicate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/duplicate/) * 22 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-posts-6/page/2/#post-5127549) * Status: not resolved